Sports marketing : a strategic perspective /
Matthew D. Shank
- Fourth edition
- New Jersey : Pearson, c2009
- xxiv, 453 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emergence of sports marketing -- Contingency framework for strategic sports marketing -- Research tools for understanding sports consumers -- Understanding participants as consumers -- Understanding spectators as consumers -- Segmentation, targeting, and positioning -- Sports product concepts -- Managing sports products -- Promotion concepts -- Promotion mix elements -- Sponsorship programs -- Pricing concepts and strategies -- Implementing and controlling the strategic sports marketing process
For courses in Sports Marketing. Shank provides a framework or conceptual model of the strategic marketing process that can be applied to the sports industry.